Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (part 5) (Patreon)

Of all the things I think we've gotten better at doing in making this show. The one thing that constantly eludes me, is having a sense of how long a movie will run. I envisioned TMNT as a two-or-three-parter and here we are speeding past five. I generally think that longer movies have more opportunity to be unique and interesting and go deeper into the world and lore, and explore the characters more fully. So I'm certainly not against long runs. But on the other hand I appreciate the efficiency of a shorter run movie and the opportunity to get through more movies if the actual movies are more compact. Probably the right call is to have a mix.

But ultimately the one thing I don't like to do is force a story to be short if it hasn't found an ending yet. What makes these stories engaging is that they're truly improvised. I don't know what the players are going to do, I merely lay out a world for them to find a story in. There is certainly some skill to be had in telling these stories efficiently, but that's actually quite a difficult thing to do without curtailing the agency of the players or without cutting the movie short.

So I'd love to hear your take. Do you think we should be doing more to keep the stories compact (the 2 or 3 parter), or do you like the more expansive stories? Or do you like a mix? Or do you not really care about the lengths of the movies. Give us your throughts!